Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Happy Wifi Day(WiFi Vs Mobile data(4G))

4G coverage has been expanded throughout the country but certain places like some part of rural and some of the public places especially indoor public places have less of 4G coverage leading to poor data speed via mobile data.
This leads to a strong business case for deploying wifi

Maintaining indoor wifi hotspots is easier than maintaining indoor 4G coverage. Moreover, backhaul bandwidth in indoor scenarios can be obtained via fiber optic and wifi hotspots can be accessed by stationary or mobile both users. the challenge in public places is security and billing from users. For resolving these issues wifi service hotspots should be provided by Telecom service provider with integrated billing and authentication.

The main cause of not launching wifi with telecom operators is investments. On one way they are investing in 4G and their returns are not assured . and is the main cause for not deploying wifi in indoor by service providers.

and other agencies if deploy and invest in wifi face the problem of security and billing the customers. also, they have to take a license to operate such services.
In this scenario, wifi is not taking off.
Wifi remains the personal hotspot technology serving the user for his own needs and not as open public wifi. This does not require any license.

It means people who have taken broadband can deploy their own wifi.for their own use. In this scenario, wifi is a highly successful technology and de-loads the 4G network for other mobile users..

It is said that there should be targetted 9 million hot spots which should have been deployed by now. But actually, less than 2% have been deployed. this statement in itself is wrong, because given the nature of wifi use as explained above. It is a personal choice to deploy wifi.




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